2、When milk arrived on the doorstep

When I was a boy growing up in New Jersey in the 1960s, we had a milkman delivering milk to our doorstep. His name was Mr. Basille. He wore a white cap and drove a white truck. As a 5-year-old boy, I couldn’t take my eyes off the coin changer fixed to his belt. He noticed this one day during a delivery and gave me a quarter out of his coin changer.

Of course, he delivered more than milk. There was cheese, eggs and so on. If we needed to change our order, my mother would pen a note----“Please add a bottle of buttermilk next delivery”----and place it in the box along with the empty bottles. And then, the buttermilk would magically appear.

All of this was about more than convenience. There existed a close relationship between families and their milkmen. Mr. Basille even had a key to our house, for those times when it was so cold outside that we put the box indoors, so that the milk wouldn’t freeze. And I remember Mr. Basille from time to time taking a break at our kitchen table, having a cup of tea and telling stories about his delivery.

There is sadly no home milk delivery today. Big companies allowed the production of cheaper milk, thus making it difficult for milkmen to compete. Besides, milk is for sale everywhere, and it may just not have been practical to have a delivery service.

Recently, I saw an old milk box in the countryside. I took it home and planted it on the back porch （门廊）. Every so often my son’s friends will ask what it is. So I start telling stories of my boyhood, and of the milkman who brought us friendship along with his milk.

26. Mr. Basille gave the boy a quarter out of his coin changer____.

A. to show his magical power                  

B. to pay for the delivery  

C. to satisfy his curiosity                          

D. to please his mother 

27. What does “this” in the third paragraph refer to?

       A. The milkman’s magic power

       B. The milkman’s kindness to me

       C. The note to change an order

       D. The home delivery service

28. What can be inferred from the fact that the milkman had the key to the boy’s house?

A. He wanted to have tea there.  

B. He was a respectable person.

C. He was treated as a family member.

D. He was fully trusted by the family.

29. Why does home milk delivery no longer exist?

A. Nobody wants to be a milkman now.  

B. It has been driven out of the market.

C. Its service is getting poor.            

D. It is forbidden by law.

30. Why did the author bring back home an old milk box?

A. He missed the good old days.          

B. He wanted to tell interesting stories.

C. He missed it for his milk bottles.        

D. He planted flowers in it.

25、VIII书面表达

你是高三年级的一名学生，你校使用电脑进行教学及管理。你的外国朋友Jack给你写信询问有关电脑运用情况，请根据下列提示写一封回信。开头及结尾部分已给出，不计字数。

 电脑很有用，它可以： 保存学校各种资料的数据， 用于教师备课，教师可在语音实验室（Language Laboratory）进行教学。 为便于教师应用电脑，学校经常请专家讲授如何使用电脑。 我们的领导和教师喜欢用电脑因为它给师生们提供了很大的帮助。 我们的观点是应当实现教育现代化（modernization of education）。

注意事项： 1.文理通顺，语言自然；2.不得逐句翻译；3.字数100词左右。

24、V.完整对话( 根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项.)

- Kate,Let’s go to the cinema,shall we?

- No.

- How about listening to some popular music?

- No!Don’t bother me!

- What’s the matter with you? 61

- The weather makes me like this.It’s always raining. 62 

- Yes.It’s said the rainy weather will still keep on for three or four more days.

-  63 

- You are always. 64 

- Then,what shall I do?

- Let’s go to the stadium to have some sports. 65 

- Is that so?OK.Let’s go!

A. Oh,I hate this wet weather         

B. You’ve been in low spirits lately.

C. How are you getting along?        

D. I haven’t seen the sun for a week.

E. Perhaps a good sweat can make you comfortable and happy.

F. I’ve been ill for days.    

G. It’ll make you more unhappy.

七、书面表达

（每空？ 分，共？ 分）

23、 你校正在开展“共建和谐校园”活动，你们班就“学生该做什么，不该做什么”

进行了讨论，请根据讨论内容写一篇英语短文。

 注意：1. 词数，100个左右。

       2. 不能逐字翻译；可适当增加内容，使文章行文连贯。

       3. 文章开头已给出，不计入总词数。

  参考词汇：吐痰—spit(v.); 和谐校园—a harmonious campus；

The Harmonious Campus Project has become part of the education in our school. As for students, how should we behave ourselves?

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22、第一节  短文改错（共10小题；每题1分，满分10分）

    此题要求改正所给短文中的错误，对标有题号的每一行作出判断；如无错误，在该行右边横线上画上一个勾（√）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正；

    此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（﹨）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

　    此行少一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在该行右边横线写出该加的词。

    此行错一个词: 在错的词下面画一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

     注意：原行没有错的不要改。

     The Internet is an useful tool and you can do many       76. __________

things on it. For example, you can make with some           77. __________

new friends on the Internet. They often lived in another        78. __________

city or even another country. Make friends online gives        79. __________

you a chance to learn about other people. So you need         80. __________

to be very carefully about these friends. It is important         81. __________

to you not to give too much information, such as              82. __________

your phone number, address and so on. It may dangerous.       83. __________

Friends on the Internet can never take place of your true        84. __________

friends. When you enjoy talking with friends online, don’t      85.__________

forget your true friends.

五、书面表达

（每空？ 分，共？ 分）

21、I had an experience once which taught me something about the ways people made a bad situation worse by blaming themselves. One January, I officiated(主持) at two funerals for two elderly women. Both died a natural death. At the first home, the son of the deceased(已故) woman said, “If only I had sent my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow, she would be alive today. It’s my fault that she died.” At the second home, the son said, “If only I had not insisted her going to Florida, she would be alive today. That long airplane ride was more than she could take. It is my fault.”

When things don’t turn out as we would like them to, we tend to assume that had we done things differently, the story would have had a happier ending. Any time there is a death, the survivors will feel guilty. Because the course of action they took turned out bad, they believe that the opposite course, for example, keeping mother at home, would have turned out better. After all, how could it have turned out any worse?

There seem to be elements involved in our readiness to feel guilty. The first lies in our belief that the world makes sense---there is a reason for everything that happens.  

The second is the thought that we are the cause of what happens, especially the bad things that happen. The roots of this feeling may lie in our childhood. A baby comes to think that the world exists to meet his needs, and that he makes everything happen in it. He wakes up in the morning and calls the rest of the world to its tasks. He cries, and someone comes to attend to him. When he is hungry, people feed him, and when he is wet, people change him. Very often, we do not completely abandon that childish thought that our wishes cause things to happen.

72. What is true about the two deceased elderly women?

   A. They both died of old age.             B. They died from hard work.

   C. They were’t accustomed to the change in life.

   D. They died due to lack of care by family members.

73. People feel guilty for the death of their loved ones because______.

   A. they cannot find a better way to express their sorrow

   B. they believe that they are responsible for what has happened

   C. they don’t know that natural course of events

   D. they don’t know things often turn out in the opposite direction

74. The underline part “the world makes sense” in Paragraph 3 probably means that____.

   A. everything in the world is planned in advance

   B. the world can be understood in different ways

   C. there’s an explanation for everything in the world

   D. we have to be wise in order to understand the world

75. People have believed since early childhood that______.

   A. everybody is at their command

   B. life and death is an unsolved mystery

   C. every story should have a happy ending

   D. their wishes are the cause of everything that happens

四、短文改错

（每空？ 分，共？ 分）

20、It is not unusual at all for teens to answer their parents with one-word answers.“Where are you going? ”“Places.”“When will you be back?”“Sometime. ”“Who will you be with? ”“People. ”

   That means that the days of your children bounding(跳跃着跑) in the front door with the details of their day are over. They are breaking away from you so that they will be able to stand on their own as a young adult.

Some parents feel sad about his loss of their children’s closeness. Of course you miss those conversations and friendly talks. Once your children move out after high school and establish themselves confidently as a young adult, they will come back for easy conversations and even ask for advice. But in order to determine who they are right now, they need to separate from you.

Your job, however, is to keep them safe---and that requires knowing where they are and who they are with. Let them know clearly that it’s not because you want to dominate(支配) their life and control them; it’s because it’s a safety issue for family members to keep track of one another.

When they are home and sit down to eat a meal, sit down with them. You need to open up to them about your life. Tell them of an interesting incident at the office, let them in on a family gossip(闲谈), discuss a piece of news with them. They are glad that you see them as old enough to be in on a few experiences of your life. By letting a teen in on your life, they just may let you in on theirs.

68. It can be inferred from the passage that______.

   A. the generation gap is becoming wider and wider

   B. teens quarrel a lot with their parents

   C. teens don’t want to live with other family members

   D. some parents feel distant from their teenage children

69. The author believes that teens’ one-word answers show ______.

   A. their awareness of independence

   B. their physical and mental changes

   C. their wishes for keeping silent

   D. an unpleasant parent-child relationship

70. What’s the main idea of the last paragraph?

   A. Parents should understand their children.

   B. Parents should keep their children safe.

   C. Parents should open their hearts to their children.

   D. Parents should give their children enough freedom.

71. What’s the author’s purpose in writing the passage?

   A. To give advice.

   B. To direct teenagers.

   C. To present findings

   D. To comfort parents.

19、Less than a month from graduation day, Theresa Casebeer of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, had yet to find the right job. The career placement center referred her to JOBTRAK, an internet site listing 45, ooo positions.

   Casebeer selected four keywords: Chicago, business, marketing and full-time. Immediately she found 45 jobs meeting her criteria(标准), including one as an assistant to an administrator at the university of Chicago’s business school. Four weeks later she was hired at a starting salary of $ 32,000.

   “I had no training,”says Casebeer.“but the Internet was extremely easy to use. I’d never have known about this job without it.”

Casebeer is one American who clicked her way into a job. Steven Toole is another.

Toole came across an employment site named Career-Builder. He had just been promoted to director of marketing for a company and wasn’t looking for a job. But curiously, he decided to “give it a try”.

Toole filled out a profile with the key words marketing manager and entered his electronic-mail address. Within a week his computer’s mailbox was filling up with available positions. Two interviews later he jumped to a new job.”The Internet is like hiring a personal assistant,”says Toole. “Effortlessly you can become aware of opportunities that may promote you career.”

Most major newspapers and trade publications have online versions of their classified listings, enabling jobseekers to scan for work available across town, in another states or around the world. All 50 states, plus Washington, D. C, and Guam, have their local job banks available online, too. “The Internet is a wonderful place to explore, especially when combined with traditional job-search methods,”notes Richard Nelson, author of What Color Is Your parachute? 

64. Theresa Casebeer found her job through______.

A. the career placement center      B. Northwestern University

C. an Internet site                D. University of Chicago

65. When Casebeer says “I had no training”(Para.3) , she means she has never been trained______.

A. on how to use the Internet        B. as an assistant to an administrator

C. on how to hunt a job             D. to work in a business school

66. Toole attempted to get a job from Career-Builder because he______.

A. wanted to be a promoted       B. wanted to jump to a new job

C. didn’t have a job at the time    D. was eager to know more about Career-Builder

67. What is the best title of this passage?

A. How to find a job on the Internet

B. The Internet, a wonderful job-search medium

C. How Casebeer and Toole found their jobs

D. Computer and job openings (职位空缺)